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Spring Storms and Rock Climbing

by on 20. Apr, 2012 in Brian Pidduck

We didn’t have the chance to ski in the backcountry as much as we would have liked this winter due to the lower than average rainfall/snowfall in Southern California. However, Mother Nature seems to have been making up for it recently with some particularly heavy storms. The irony is that we have had to cancel more »

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The Stable Song

by on 12. Apr, 2012 in Jenn Finley

A few weeks ago we had the good fortune of hosting a musical performance by Gregory Alan Isakov and the Freight. They hail from Colorado and are quite known in the alternative folk/ country genre.  They have played and toured with some of the more established acts of this genre. The musicians were accompanied by more »

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Full-throttle Sensory

by on 04. Apr, 2012 in Joy Sawyer Mulligan

On Sunday, an hour-long hike in the hills with Michael engaged all seven senses: •kinesthetic: climbing up the Rhodes-Metcalf, up to the Gretch, back down the Corwen and ultimately linking to the Barkan •auditory: jays jabbering in trees and bushes all along the trail; rustle of small fauna in the undergrowth •organic: heart pounding harder, more »

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1-2-3 Coyotes

by on 25. Mar, 2012 in Fred Coleman

An essential part of my routine is an early-morning run of 40-70 minutes almost every day. Last winter on such a run at about 0630 on McNell, not far from Reeves road, I noticed movement to my lower left and stopped to take a look. There appeared a tiny creature, about the size of a more »

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Job Description (unbound)

by on 02. Mar, 2012 in Joy Sawyer Mulligan

We all heard this week at Assembly about a faculty member, who, as advisor to a certain esoteric campus activity, was called to an unusual job: chasing down an AWOL school pig named Spike and returning her to the pen after patching the offending gape in the fence. Actually, a second teacher, who lives close more »

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